VOLCANOES
OF NORTHERN KURILES
| Tatarinov volcano | |
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| Hazard synopsis | ||||||||
Potential hazards are caused by ash plumes, ash falls. Ash falls possible at: |
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| Monitoring status | ||||||||
| Satellite monitoring | ||||||||
| Form and structure | ||||||||
The
stratovolcano is nested on the volcanic ridge of Karpinskiy merging
with Chikurachki volcano in the north and Lomonosov volcano in the
south. It is irregular massif with some summits and flank craters. |
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| Volcanic activity | ||||||||
| End of the17th
sentury – an eruption supposingly of plinian type. 1953, 1959, 1962, 1973, 2004 - solfatara activity on the eastern flank of the volcano |
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| Location | ||||||||
The
volcano is located on the Paramushir Island, in 60 km to the south-west
from Severo-Kurilsk, in the northern part of Karpinsky ridge joining
Chikurachki volcano in the north. |
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| Composition | ||||||||
| Andesits | ||||||||
| Age | ||||||||
| Upper Pleistocene-Holocene |
